Thread: pricing

Did one job. charged the customer $450 to basically scrub a 2 story house. some parts were green. two large porches were black. supposed to be gray. took myself and a helper 10 hours. another customer called. one story 25x50 house. she only wanted a simple spray. I said $200 on the high side and she said I am crazy. Am I crazy? any help would be appreciated.

nope. I charge .16 per SF (for vinyl) and that comes right to 200.00
Some people look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them the price. I then explain how my soft-wash is much different (and safer for their home) than just pressure washing.

Cant win them all man, but at .16 per SF, I stay real busy.

oh, and 10 hours is a very long time, what was the square footage? What type of machine? What house wash?

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Done properly, that two story home, should have only taken one person, one hour.

No you are not crazy for the $200 house wash price, I am higher than that and do a one stry ranch in 30-45minutes.

It is the customer that is crazy thinking she should pay less to wash a House(value increases) than she probably spends each year washing her depreciating value car. ($10/wash/week x 52 weeks = $520/year)

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200.00 for a 25x50 one story house is just right. 10 hours for 2 guys on a 2 story is way out of line. With our soft wash system we can wash the exterior of a 3500 sq ft house in under 4 hours, no matter how dirty, moldy and nasty it is. http://www.greatlakesroofcleaning.com

Did one job. charged the customer $450 to basically scrub a 2 story house. some parts were green. two large porches were black. supposed to be gray. took myself and a helper 10 hours. another customer called. one story 25x50 house. she only wanted a simple spray. I said $200 on the high side and she said I am crazy. Am I crazy? any help would be appreciated.

i wouldn't touch a job that took 10hrs with 2 people for 450....sorry i just started doing power washing, and i underbid(in my opinion) the two small jobs i got and they still weren't that bad. one lady wanted her front steps power washed, and i said i could do it, haven't power washed anything ever before but figured it couldn't be that hard to do so i said i could do it, included in a shrub pruning, and bed prep job i did for 1000 dollars which with everything the whole job took 9hrs, the power washing took 2hrs because the power washer i was using is a partially broken and the nozzle is stuck on jet so i had to do 1/2 " at time. then the second job i did included it into the a 3100 dollar shrub pruning and mulch job i did, and these steps took about 1 hr and i told the guy it would be 150 to do his front steps. he instantly said include it, so i know i was cheap on that price but again the whole job shrub pruning, weeding, mulching, power washing only took 13hrs including, so that lady is crazy.